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Education Support Unit News & Events

News

• University Teaching Award winners announced at Learning and Teaching Exhibition (12.01.10)
• Consultation paper on the first series of proposals on a common method for degree classification (18.12.09)
• University Teaching Fellowship Scheme opened (01.12.09)
• Learning and Teaching Exhibition: 7th January 2010 (05.11.09)
• Informal Guidance in Respect of Students Who Have Not Completed All Required Assessment for Honours Classification [pdf] (22.10.09)
• Progress paper on the degree classification project - to Senate [UoB only] (21.10.09)
• Revised Code of Practice for the Assessment of Students on Taught Programmes for 2009/10 (08.09.09)
• What's new in Blackboard 8 - staff training
• Blackboard downtime - 14th - 16th July 2009 (14.07.09)
• e-Assessment Event - 2nd July 2009 (17.06.09)
• Online fEC Unit Costing Tool launched (11.05.09)
• Revised Guidance (and forms) on Student Absence due to Illness - approved by Senate, February 2009 (20.04.09)
• Revised Guidelines for Student Handbooks (02.04.09)
• e-Learning Easter School 2009 - 2nd and 3rd April (23.03.09)
• Guidelines on Student Placements in Taught Programmes - approved by Senate (04.03.09)
• Institutional Briefing Paper submitted for Audit (UoB only, 23.02.09)
• Learning and Teaching Exhibition programme (8th January 2009)
• Winners of the University Teaching Prizes (16 December 08)
• Call for nominations for the National Teaching Fellowship Individual Award (03 December 08)
• Call for nominations for the University Teaching Prizes (28 October 08)
• New system to display programme and unit information available (10 October 08)
• Handbook for academic quality and standards updated (10 October 08)
• Guidelines on the Accreditation of Prior Learning approved (28 July 08)
• Code of Practice for the Assessment of Students on Taught Programmes approved.

Events

Please see our website for a full range of workshops, drop-ins and virtual training sessions on a range of technologies, tools and techniques including:

• Blackboard: introductory and advanced sessions, and how to improve your student's experience of your Blackboard course
• Recording lectures
• Computer Assisted Assessment
• Developing effective tutorials using CourseGenie
• Using audio and video in teaching and learning
• Social software tools such as wikis, blogs, social bookmarking and social networking